April 9, 2010

Obituaries

Please submit in writing to our office by 10 a.m. Thursday before the week of publication; be sure to state date of death. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and religious sisters and brothers are included here, unless they are natives of the archdiocese or have other connections to it; those are separate obituaries on this page.

St. Joseph Sister Dorothy Scheidler served at schools, parishes and a hospital

St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Dorothy Scheidler, the former Sister Anne Alfred, died on March 12 at the sisters’ Nazareth Living Center in St. Louis. She was 86.

The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on March 22 at the Nazareth Living Center Chapel. Her body was donated to the St. Louis University Medical Center for medical research.

She was born on Sept. 4, 1923, in Champaign, Ill. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet on Sept. 15, 1941, and professed her final vows on Aug. 15, 1947.

Sister Dorothy earned a bachelor’s degree in education at Fontbonne College in St. Louis and master’s degree in education at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind.

During 67 years as a Sister of St. Joseph, she ministered as a teacher, administrator and pastoral associate.

In the archdiocese, Sister Dorothy taught at the former Sacred Heart School in Indianapolis from 1971-73 and Central Catholic School in Indianapolis from 1974-76. From 1994-98, she volunteered at Holy Angels School in Indianapolis.

In 2002, she retired and moved to the Nazareth Living Center.

She is survived by a sister, Ruth Blankman of Greensburg.

Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis Province, 6400 Minnesota Ave., St. Louis, MO 63111. †